[rhn-users] Re: rhnsd daemon update

[Tsai Li Ming]

nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Tsai Li Ming wrote:
> 
> 
>> Does rhnsd update the system automatically, similar to doing a up2date 
>> -u in a cron? The default rhnsd runs for every 4 hours. Updates were 
>> not installed when I started rhnsd and left it running for a day and 
>> there's nothing in the /var/log/message except it is running 
>> rhn_check. Furthermore, when I ran rhn_check -v as root, there are no 
>> outputs.
> 
> 
> No, rhnsd and rhn_check simply poll the RHN server and see if there are
> any pending actions scheduled that it needs to pick up and run.  If you do
> not schedule an update, install, package-list refresh, etc.. through the
> RHN website than rhnsd and rhn_check will not do anything when they poll.
> 
> -n


Ok. This is really helpful.

Thanks,
Liming